Amazing Antiques!

Usually (always up until this very moment) I have devoted this blog solely to art and objects that I create. But I've decided that I want to expand my scope a little bit beyond the crafts of my own hands, and share about my new internship.

At the beginning of January I started interning two days a week at Amy Perlin Antiques, a beautiful antiques showroom on 61st and 2nd Ave that mainly sells to the trade. The minute I walked in I fell in love with the store.

It looks like Miss Havisham's house crossed with the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler with a touch of the Mad Hatter; there are 16th century tables stacked on top of 19th century benches, and 18th century curio cabinets filled with stuffed porcupines and pieces of Roman mosiac.


These are a few of my favorite pieces from the store:

This green Chesterfield is simply stunning in person. Everytime I see it I can't help but imagine some gritty lingerie ad, maybe for Dolce & Gabbana, with a strung-out model lying on this couch! It has this bohemian quality of something both beautiful and broken-down.


This is an amazing unusual object that is actually a piece of Roman stonework. I didn't even know that you could own something like this outside of a museum!

This wood coffee table is so unique and beautiful. Its shape always reminds me of some kind of dinosaur. Now that it has been buffed up to a glossy gleam it invites the touch....